David MacFadyen - Russian Television Today; Primetime Drama and Comedy (2007), Rosja - 3,3 GB
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Russian Television Today The most important stories in Russia have traditionally been those of lit- erature; today that function is fulfilled by TV drama. This book examines the role of dramatized narratives in Russian television, demonstrating how they grapple with key questions of both national identity and recent history. Russian Television Today shows how visual drama succeeds in offering some answers or consolation, laying claim to a window on past generations and showing Russian viewers what might be salvageable from the Soviet experi- ence. Just as President Putin uses that experience to hone a fresh under- standing of what it means to ‘‘be’’ Russian, so TV’s heroes and heroines frequently express themselves with a related, soothing simplicity. Extending and complicating any such harmonies, this book then turns to other important developments: the manufacturing of new ‘‘national’’ on-screen characters and their peculiar relationship to both classic or Soviet literature and Latin-American soaps – all filtered through the enduring emphases of love, fidelity, humor, and irony. Since, however, those filters are often designed to block an unpleasant actuality, this book also pays considerable attention to the pressing problem of domestic crime and its troubled repre- sentation on screen – either as Mafia or police adventures. Overall, Russian Television Today provides a detailed account of critical social and aesthetic issues in Russia’s primetime visual media, all the way from historical epics to the recent, more profitable emphases of situation comedy and reality shows. David MacFadyen is Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. He is the author of numerous books on many aspects of Russian literature and cul- ture, including the poetry of Joseph Brodsky, classic Soviet prose, popular song across the twentieth century, comedic cinema, and animated film. Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series 1 Liberal Nationalism in Central Europe Stefan Auer 2 Civil-Military Relations in Russia and Eastern Europe David J. Betz 3 The Extreme Nationalist Threat in Russia The Growing Influence of Western Rightist Ideas Thomas Parland 4 Economic Development in Tatarstan Global Markets and a Russian Region Leo McCann 5 Adapting to Russia’s New Labour Market Gender and Employment Strategy Edited by Sarah Ashwin 6 Building Democracy and Civil Society East of the Elbe Essays in Honour of Edmund Mokrzycki Edited by Sven Eliaeson 7 The Telengits of Southern Siberia Landscape, Religion and Knowledge in Motion Agnieszka Halemba 8 The Development of Capitalism in Russia Simon Clarke 9 Russian Television Today Primetime Drama and Comedy David MacFadyen Russian Television Today Primetime drama and comedy David MacFadyen [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ] |